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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon…

— George Friedman

Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.

— Peter C Goldmark Jr

Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have…

— Diane Johnson

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

— Thucydides

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes…

— Harold Ramis

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we…

— Francois Fenelon

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

— Jim Rohn

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

— Margaret Mead

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai